Back to China again!
It is October again and it is time for Hans to head back east. This time I am going to Shanghai, and not Hangzhou as in October 2010 and 2011. I will present some research I have done on news and stock market volatility (with a Chinese flavor) at Fudan University. I am curious about going to Shanghai for many reasons. One reason is that I want to see how the economical/financial situation has changed since last year. I am looking forward to getting under the skin of the Chinese economy again and to talk to professors at Fudan about the situation. I have been negative about buying Chinese stocks for a couple of years now and I wonder if it, possibly, could be time to change my opinion. Those who have followed my blog for the last two years might recall my strong bear attitude to Chinese stocks (but not on China in general): in October 2010 in the blog Go east, boys and girls! I wrote “...I am not advising anyone to buy a sizeable piece of China corp. right now. As obvious as it is that...